Æ24 - Gallienus sole reign) (ϹΤΡΑ ΒΑϹΙΛΕΩϹ ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ / Β / ΝΕΟΚΟ (ΩΝ), ΟΛΥ - ΠΙΑ (sic)

Gallienus ruled the eastern provinces largely in absentia, managing a fractured empire from the west while usurpers proliferated and the Sassanids pressed hard on the frontier. Cyzicus, one of the most commercially active cities on the Propontis, held neokoros status — the honorific right to maintain an imperial cult temple — and advertised it aggressively on civic bronze throughout this period. The "ΟΛΥ-ΠΙΑ" spelling here is a documented epigraphic irregularity on this type, not a die-cutter's idiosyncratic error but a variant that recurs consistently enough to suggest it was either sanctioned or simply never corrected.